Icons in the Bedroom?!
Question
Is hanging icons in the bedroom forbidden or permissible?
Answer
First, we distinguish between icons and religious pictures.
Icons are the images painted with chrism, which are kept in the church, and around which the priest censes. These have a special honor, because they are consecrated with the Holy Chrism.
These icons painted with chrism are not placed in the bedroom.
Because an icon painted with chrism, if placed in the home, is placed in a designated place of worship, and not in bedrooms. In general, it is rare to find icons consecrated with chrism… So perhaps you mean religious pictures…
Ordinary religious pictures may be placed in any room.
There is nothing forbidden about this, because they are a source of spiritual contemplation.
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